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  • I know that this “DYK” is a bit tired by now but it still blows my mind occasionally: For Cleopatra those pieces would have been further in the past, than she is to us. By ~800 years. 800 years from now is 1200s. Those come from an old past of an ancient past before the ancient past

    There was a person, patiently sanding off features of a dog. What was their reality like? What were they worrying about? What were they hoping for? All seemingly lost like game pieces in the sand. Yet, somehow here those are. Washed ashore despite the storms of history












  • I have also been wondering about this. But

    admins and mods are selected sortitionally( randomly) from people who apply

    That’s your point of starvation. The application

    I think, instead, everyone on the instance should be a voting member. And the decisions should be taken based on some requirement on the votes

    1. person one flags a post -> that’s a vote
    2. maybe add a header that this post is under review? The voting process should probably be taking some time
    3. another person flags the same post -> that’s a vote
    4. someone else says it should not be flagged -> that’s a vote in opposite direction
    5. ??? <- can be changed by an instance wide vote too
    6. post/comment/user is either moderated or not, depending on votes and logic from the previous vote

    In order to boost participation, randomly ask an active account to cast a vote on an ongoing discussion

    I think there should be some way for “backend admin” to step in and ban something. But they should only do that for spam/csam/scam/etc. Nothing else, no matter how crazy or rude the take is
    (btw, maybe the instance could also normalize asking someone to reword their take if it’s rude or can be interpreted badly out of context?)